The deployment follows clashes between police and banned Chhatra League activists in Tungipara, during which a police vehicle was set on fire.
Representational image. File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
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Representational image. File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has deployed three platoons of its personnel in Gopalganj today (10 November) to maintain law and order and ensure public security following clashes, arson and crude bomb explosions in the district.
BGB personnel will perform their assigned duties in coordination with other law enforcement agencies, based on the requirements and advice of the district magistrate, BGB Public Relations Officer Md Shariful Islam said.
The deployment comes after a police vehicle was set on fire during a clash between police and activists of the activities-banned Chhatra League in Tungipara this morning.
Around 10:30am, a large number of Chhatra League leaders and activists gathered at Tungipara intersection with oars and poles as part of a procession organised by the upazila unit. They set tyres on fire and staged protests.
Activists of the upazila Awami League, Juba League and other affiliated organisations also joined the gathering and brought out a procession carrying oars and poles.
When police tried to disperse the protesters, a chase and counter-chase broke out between the two sides. At one stage, the protesters allegedly set fire to a police vehicle.
Police arrested eight people, seized seven motorcycles and recovered 15 unexploded crude bombs in connection with the incidents, according to Gopalganj Superintendent of Police Habibullah.
Additional law enforcement personnel were sent from Gopalganj following the clashes, while tension continued in Tungipara as of the filing of the earlier report.
The latest unrest follows a series of crude bomb explosions and road blockades across the district last night, centring on a nationwide strike called by the banned Chhatra League.
Crude bombs were reportedly detonated near the main gate of Gopalganj District School, on the walls of Government Women’s College and the passport office, and at the gate of Government Technical School and College, among other locations.
Activists of the banned Awami League and Chhatra League also blocked the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in the Betgram area by setting fires and chanting slogans. Torch processions and crude bomb explosions were also reported in Kotalipara.
SP Habibullah said last night that police had arrested eight people, seized seven motorcycles and recovered 15 unexploded crude bombs.
He added that law and order in the district remained normal today, apart from one or two isolated incidents.
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